TV Writer Podcast 056 – Brandon David Cole (Bristol Boys)

After studying at Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Brandon David Cole set a goal of writing and directing three feature films by the time he was 30. Not only did he hit that goal, but his three indie features, which he also produced and edited, all sold for distribution!

Brandon David Cole started his filmmaking career making BMX videos at age 14 with his dad’s 2-piece VHS camera. Eventually filmmaking became more of a focus than BMX riding for Brandon and he found himself at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Film & Television program.

After graduation from NYU, Brandon wrote, directed and produced 3 independent feature films, all of which were sold for distribution. He has directed several television commercials and music videos, and edited a long list of reality television shows for MTV, VH1, Discovery, Spike, Speed, MSNBC, G4, Style and E!.

Brandon has made his own dollies, jibs, car mounts other support gear for all three of his feature films, working with machinist friends to create custom rigs. When Brandon bought a Canon 7D DSLR camera and asked his neighbor to build him a shoulder rig in his machine shop, the Midas Mount brand of camera support was born.

In addition to running the camera support brand Midas Mount, Brandon continues to write, produce and direct feature films, documentaries and reality television shows.

About Gray Jones

Gray Jones is an L.A. based reality/doc TV editor/writer with credits on 210 television episodes and counting. Author of the book, How To Break in To TV Writing, he is a world-renowned podcast producer and host, currently producing the TV Writer Podcast in partnership with Script Magazine. Gray also runs the TV Writer Twitter Database, the world’s largest database of TV writers on Twitter, and is the former host of Chuck vs. the Podcast, the world's #1 TV-themed podcast, for NBC's Chuck. Gray co-founded the weekly TVWriterChat, sister of ScriptChat. Originally from Canada, Gray has an honors BFA in Screenwriting from York University in Toronto, where he graduated in 1994.

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